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  • Metro is actually short for “chemin de fer metropolitain” French for metropolitan = urban railway and it used to be referred to, in brochures and on some signs as “le metropolitain” even in my youth.

    Now is the time to reshape our cities « Stephen Rees’s blog 2008

  • Johannesburg metropolitain council, an energy from waste plant in

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

  • "It is time we all recognised the reality of the fast-approaching new South Africa and our common, indivisible regional and metropolitain future."

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1993

  • XIX, 517-522; PETIT, Acte synodal du patriarche Nicephore II sur les privileges du metropolitain de Trebizonde in Bulletin de l'institut arch. russe de Constantinople VIII, 163-171; Missiones catholica

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner 1840-1916 1913

  • Malcolm Downing from the Bureau says it is unlikley any major metropolitain areas will be badly affected by today's wind and rain.

    Latest News - Yahoo!7 News 2010

  • Malcolm Downing from the Bureau says it is unlikley any major metropolitain areas will be badly affected by today's wind and rain.

    Latest News - Yahoo!7 News 2010

  • Malcolm Downing from the Bureau says it is unlikley any major metropolitain areas will be badly affected by today's wind and rain.

    Latest News - Yahoo!7 News 2010

  • We have a major metropolitain area that needs to be irrigated.

    Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local 2009

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